. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . onof the laws of war and under that plea they selected from the prisoners fiftyofficers and placed them in the district reached by the shells. Capt. Willard■Glazier, who has in recent years explored the Mississippi and solved the 276 HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES vexed question of its head-waters, was one of the officers selected for thatpost of danger. He writes: When the distant rumbling of the SwampAngel was heard, and t
. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . onof the laws of war and under that plea they selected from the prisoners fiftyofficers and placed them in the district reached by the shells. Capt. Willard■Glazier, who has in recent years explored the Mississippi and solved the 276 HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES vexed question of its head-waters, was one of the officers selected for thatpost of danger. He writes: When the distant rumbling of the SwampAngel was heard, and the cry Here it comes! resounded through ourprison house, there was a general stir. Sleepers sprang to their feet, thegloomy forgot their sorrows, conversation was hushed, and all started to seewhere the messenger would fall. At night we traced along the sky a slightstream of fire similar to the tail of a comet, and followed its course untilWhiz! whiz! came the little pieces from our mighty 200-pounder, scatter-ing themselves all around. The Unionists retaliated by placing an equalnumber of Confederate officers under fire, which caused the enemy toremove the FORT SUMTER BEFORE THE BOMBARDMENT. Comrade Wm. Fowler tells of a conversation he had with a customer ofhis in Charleston whom he called on a year after the war closed. Were you in the war? asked the ; Were you? I was; and I remember how elated we were when we placed a numberof Union prisoners on the parapet of Sumter during the bombardment, welaughed over it and thought it was a good joke and said, now let theYankees kill their own men if they want to. But when I was taken prisonerand placed in the trenches I did not see the fun at all, in fact, I thoughtit was rather tragical. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861-1865 277 The greatest consternation was caused in the streets of Charleston whenthe shells fell, but at the thirty-sixth discharge the Swamp Angel burst,and it was never replaced. The comrades wai
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